[Help Please] Steam Default game library keeps switching to a different drive.

[Sanninme No Rikudo]

Hello people of the Steam Forums,
I keep running into this problem where once every while (unspecified amount of time between the happenings), my default game library which is located on my haddrive "G:/Steam" keeps switching to the default steam installation folder on my SSD "C:/Steam" and every so often I fail to notice this.
this results in me installing over 120gb's of games onto my SSD and having to cut/paste these files over in to the harddrive and having steam recheck the games data.
it isn't much of a big deal, but it is a nuisance nevertheless.

is there any specific reason why this is happening?
I have a mild form of autism and it is absolutely F'ing aggrevating every time I have to deal with this since I keep my computer extremely tidy and organized.

if anyone can identify the reason why this keeps happening or help me find a solution from this happening, I would extremely appreciate it!

[Clarence Boddicker]

Buy 1tb ssd.

[Sanninme No Rikudo]

Originally posted by Chonchy:

Buy 1tb ssd.

but I don't want to replace my current SSD because that would mean I have to replace/move everything over which is such a drag.

great tip though!

[Clarence Boddicker]

Originally posted by ѕannιnмe no rιĸυdō:

Originally posted by Chonchy:

Buy 1tb ssd.

but I don't want to replace my current SSD because that would mean I have to replace/move everything over which is such a drag.

great tip though!:cozybrawlhalla1:

Put Steam on your G drive.

[Sanninme No Rikudo]

as great as it sounds, I kind of like steam itself being on my C: drive as i've always done it this way, I don't install any programs to my harddrive aside from actual games or anime that I've downloaded.

it's because of the way my harddrive has been partitioned, it's under two partitions with one literally being called "Games" and the other being "media" (anime, movies, series).

Is there really no other way to fix this issue than the simplest solution of just reinstalling steam to my G: Drive?

[Clarence Boddicker]

Partitioning is probably your problem.

[Sanninme No Rikudo]

how is partitioning a 2tb drive a problem? it's efficient and organized.
okay maybe less efficient read/write wise but that's not the issue!

[Sore]

Originally posted by Sanninme No Rikudo:

Hello people of the Steam Forums,
I keep running into this problem where once every while (unspecified amount of time between the happenings), my default game library which is located on my haddrive "G:/Steam" keeps switching to the default steam installation folder on my SSD "C:/Steam" and every so often I fail to notice this.
this results in me installing over 120gb's of games onto my SSD and having to cut/paste these files over in to the harddrive and having steam recheck the games data.
it isn't much of a big deal, but it is a nuisance nevertheless.

is there any specific reason why this is happening?
I have a mild form of autism and it is absolutely F'ing aggrevating every time I have to deal with this since I keep my computer extremely tidy and organized.

if anyone can identify the reason why this keeps happening or help me find a solution from this happening, I would extremely appreciate it!

this might not be your issue or you have it resolved but I found that in the power settings of the PC if your hard drives are set to power down after X amount of min then steam will assume it is unplugged and revert beck to the default installation drive and will remove the selected drive
hope this helps

[crunchyfrog]

There's a few things that can cause this.

THe big one is not having enough space. Steam needs NO MORE than 90% of your drive to be used. You go over that and weird stuff like this starts happening.

Furthermore, if you donwload games, you need to aloow up to THREE TIMES the total file size to decrypt and uncompress them. SO for example, if you have a 1TB drive and you've used 800GB you're fine because you have used 80% and you have another 100GB to play with.

But if you then go to download a game that is 100GB then you won't have enough because you'd need anything up to 300GB.

So make sure you aren't falling into that trap.

Next, make sure you have any power saving settings and so on set correctly. If you have any setting that makes the hard drives go dormant after a period of no use, then this will screw things up as well.

Lastly, NEVER use sleep mode. That also screws things up for Steam.

[Sanninme No Rikudo]

Thanks guys, it hasn't happened in a long time though but I'll remember these if anyone ever encounters a similar problem!